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Clipped Recap: Game Day
Clipped arrives at the most historic moment in Clippers history and puts the team’s decision into context.
Years later, in 2020, when the NBA was finishing out its pandemic-shortened season in “the Bubble” of Disney World, the Milwaukee Bucks refused to play in their own playoff game against the Orlando Magic in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by a police officer in Wisconsin. The solution he presents to them is to make a statement through their play, like Jesse Owens winning four golds in front of Adolf Hitler or Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists on the podium in Mexico City 1968. DeAndre Jordan’s instinct to join others in posting a black square on Instagram and initially refusing to play seems — again, in retrospect — like the best response to an owner who “is literally saying that I’m a piece of property.” But he agrees to the compromise solution to stage a protest and move forward, which winds up feeling so wrong that Doc predicts the drubbing they’re about to take before the game even tips off.
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